Hive tools

[bjosephd]

you need to learn how to keep your hive tool in your hand at all times, pity they don't teach this in the basic exam.

I painted mine with hi vis paint but it soon came off with soda crystal solution

During inspections is fine. Not a problem.

It's finding it BEFORE inspections that's the problem.

 

[JWF]

Tape measures, pencils and elastic bands when you need them.

Personally, anything I really need should be surgically grafted to part of my body ... I'm thinking hive tool in place of two fingers and a hook for my smoker between my knees ...

Definitely tape measures. I must have bought 20 of them over the last few years.

 

[bontbee]

glasses - unless they're on my head....the real problem is when I can feel them there, but they aren't!

 

[Into the lions den]

Good grade hive tools by the box...under two quid each. Not worth looking for really once you get to having to really hunt.....

But........kneeling on the upturned scraper end of a nice hive tool hidden in the grass can bright forth all manner of intemperate language.....not to mention the torn beesuit and blood messing the suit up..........so by this measure it IS worth looking for them.

A more permanent solution is to lay chicken wire on the ground over the whole site and spike it down with long ground spikes. Then take one nice hive tool and attach it by clip to one terminal of a very high voltage array of batteries. Attach the other terminal to the chicken wire. When the hive tool fairy comes along and tries to steal it it gets 5000v of a bonus. Apart from a small puff of smoke that should be the end of the problems. A slight hazard of this system is if you forget that either this is the electrified hive tool and try to use it, or you forget to disconnect the voltage source. Either way there is a chance that your days of worrying about hive tools are behind you.....

Just to be clear.....I have never engaged in this practice....just heard about other beekeepers doing it. So...if you are the type who never loses one....it was not me who bumped off your fairy.............it was someone else.

 

[psafloyd]

Next year I'm going to buy 10 hive tools.

I think I have only lost one. And it was a flourescent yellow one, too.

 

[Finman]

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Table saw is very good.

 

[pargyle]

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Table saw is very good.

I've never lost my table saw and I try and avoid kneeling on the blade - particularly when it's going round ... that would make your eyes water !

 

[colinc]

I've never lost my table saw and I try and avoid kneeling on the blade - particularly when it's going round ... that would make your eyes water !

Not so much as sitting on it when it is in your back pocket though.......


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[pargyle]

Not so much as sitting on it when it is in your back pocket though.......


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Must be a pocket table saw ?

 

[Finman]

I've never lost my table saw and I try and avoid kneeling on the blade - particularly when it's going round ... that would make your eyes water !

That day will come...." Have 3 bears needed my table saw again".

 

[Fusion_power]

a hook for my smoker between my knees

Don't do this. I held a smoker between my knees 25 years ago and still carry the scar on the inside of my leg. it was one of the most painful burns of my short life.

 

[Apiarisnt]

Must be a pocket table saw ?

Does one use that with a pocket hole jig?

 

[Finman]

Don't do this. I held a smoker between my knees 25 years ago and still carry the scar on the inside of my leg. it was one of the most painful burns of my short life.

That is a small problem compared to that you keep table saw between your knees.

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[pargyle]

Does one use that with a pocket hole jig?

Ahhh ....another sales opportunity ... pocket sized holes ... I can supply at very reasonable cost - available again on line - summer season's holes. Free rims ...

 

[Teemore]

I think I have only lost one. And it was a flourescent yellow one, too.

Lost my original hive tool back in May - it used to be fluorescent yellow too but use had left it with only a small patch of yellow on the head. It hasnt helped in finding it..... Thankfully I had already purchased a spare (or two) several years ago.

ITLD - havent had the pleasure of kneeling on one of the scraper style hive tools... I did manage to locate some nice blackthorn with my knee (Sloe thorns) earlier in the Summer when checking some apideas in an out apiary. That was just after remarking that the hedge behind them had been "faced" out of season.